(cbc.ca): Free access to government data and equitable access to the internet itself are key to a prosperous digital economy, say many of those who took part in recent federal consultations. For two months, the government has been seeking public input on its strategy for a digital economy.

(content.nejm.org): While the National Institutes of Health works to refine its new financial conflict-of-interest regulations, one of the nation's leading medical journals is pushing the NIH to be even tougher. The NIH in May proposed cutting to $5,000 from $10,000 the level at which an NIH-backed researcher must report to his university a payment from an outside company, and a set of recommendations published today by the New England Journal of Medicine says the annual trigger number should be lowered all the way down to $100.

(ca.linexlegal.com): As scientific evidence is central to most mass tort and product liability actions, it is important for counsel to consider the strengths and weaknesses of peer-review, and how peerreviewed scientific literature may be challenged, say attorneys Bert L. Slonim and Lori B. Leskin in this BNA Insight. This article identifies potential areas of inquiry for counsel when facing a peer-reviewed, published article, as well as the possible remedies to invoke when scientific flaws are discovered.

(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): Every June, publishers and editors anxiously await the Parade of the Journal Citation Reports, and hope - some even pray - that their own numbers will increase. After all, an increase is an increase, right? In spite of a plea from one liblicense-l reader, it didn't take long for publishers to begin crunching 2009 performance figures to see how well they did.

(guardian.co.uk): A Google-backed research project is to map out the relationship between location and literature, visualising works related to a specific era or place using Google Earth.A joint project between the Open University, the University of Southampton and the University of California at Berkeley, Google Ancient Places will let users search for books related to specific geographic location during a particular time period, which are then visualised on Google Earth or Google Maps. Academics will be able to access data compiled from a broad swathe of literature, including many out of print and rare material often kept just a small number of institutions.